Love Grace

To think that there are around 7 billion people on earth and every single one is different and unique. It is fascinating to me that each person has their own personality and their own quirks that are not found in anyone else. How amazing is the God who made us all! I see my coworkers and have noticed their quirks and have come to love them each. This week, I have been overwhelmed at the love I feel for these people I work with. I am sure this love is from the Lord, for I could not muster such drenching and heart-burdening love for anyone. The skeptic inside me asked my subconscious why I feel this way for it is truly not like me. I found that the only explanation, the only reason is Jesus. Only Jesus could love those who do not even care to ponder His existence. Only He could love a people whose heart is far from Him. Only He could feel such rooted compassion for a lost generation and for good reason- He created them! Each in his/her own way. Such care, such love. O, How deep the Fath

In the face of a new year, I am humbled before the presence of a Mighty God. In retrospect, my wallowing and weeping have torn precious time from my journey with the Father. God took me through several places in order to teach me humility this 2012. His lessons for me to cease my complaining were often so difficult that I felt myself taking steps back. I was living half-heartedly when I learned I had to fall down before I could get up; I had to die before being revived by God. Learning to recognize the difference between the attack of the enemy and the testing of God's hand could not have been a more difficult lesson. O, how I wrestled within myself; my flesh and my spirit. Battling a depression I was unwilling to admit I was going through, took away from my joy and drained me emotionally. My pride stood in the way to ask for help to those around me even in the most pivotal points of my life, but more than that, I hate the pride that stood in the way between God and my heart. It